RETURN FROM CALVARY
Your steps were slow and you leaned heavily
on John and Magdalene. The knife plunged deep
into your heart denied you tears to weep,
nor could you realise that Calvary
with all its pain was awful certainty
and not a dream. Had He not lain asleep
within your arms; was He not ours to keep
for time and all God's long eternity?
You could not think of Him as being dead,
the fires of His life so quickly burned
to ash and vision fled from out His eyes,
but suddenly you saw His blood still red
upon the road and looking back discerned
three crosses black against the sombre skies.
Sister M Gustave OP. Sign. May 1936
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